honorable mention
Carmen Serejo portugalPhoto © Carmen Serejo
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the refugee tragedy that has left unprecedented levels of human displacement and suffering throughout the world.
Forced to flee armed conflict and persecution, or seeking to escape extreme poverty, lack of access to economic, social and cultural rights, and other violations of their human rights, children, women and men live in LIMBO, often neglected and marginalised in the countries to which they fled and where they believed they might find a better life.
They are from Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Iraq, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Tibet, Ukraine; they are Rohingya ...
In September 2019, she started her photography and photojournalism training at Cenjor - Protocol Training Center for Journalists.
Since then, her photography has been a tool for personal expression and construction of narratives giving each character its own energy and power. Only after sinking all her senses into the story, does she try to conceive and explore the images.
She believes in photography as a means of consciousness and connection.
This site shows a small selection of hundreds of photographs she took over the course of her year and half career. She consistently worked across genres, encompassing portrait, photojournalism, but, above all, people and their emotions.
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entry description
This image is one of a photographic series (IN LIMBO) about one of the most terrible humanitarian emergencies -the refugee tragedy that has left unprecedented levels of human displacement and suffering throughout the world.
Forced to flee armed conflict and persecution, or seeking to escape extreme poverty, lack of access to economic, social and cultural rights, and other violations of their human rights, children, women and men live in LIMBO, often neglected and marginalised in the countries to which they fled and where they believed they might find a better life.
They are from Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Iraq, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Tibet, Ukraine; they are Rohingya ...
about the photographer
Carmen Serejo was born in Mozambique,1961. Lives in Sintra, Portugal.In September 2019, she started her photography and photojournalism training at Cenjor - Protocol Training Center for Journalists.
Since then, her photography has been a tool for personal expression and construction of narratives giving each character its own energy and power. Only after sinking all her senses into the story, does she try to conceive and explore the images.
She believes in photography as a means of consciousness and connection.
This site shows a small selection of hundreds of photographs she took over the course of her year and half career. She consistently worked across genres, encompassing portrait, photojournalism, but, above all, people and their emotions.
back to gallery